Myelodysplastic syndrome:

Next, we have the reader who is suffering from this bone marrow disease. She is facing pressure from her doctors to undergo a bone marrow transplant but is reluctant to go-ahead. Don’t, sums up one reader’s response. Once a bone marrow transplant candidate herself, this reader has been in full remission from locally advanced cancer for the past decade. The secrets of her success? A strict macrobiotic diet, homeopathic remedies (she mentions Hoxsey and Venus Fly Trap tinctures) and lots of mushrooms (medicinal ones, of course).